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The Passenger (Boschwitz novel)

The Passenger AuthorUlrich Alexander BoschwitzTranslatorPhilip BoehmCountryGermanyLanguageGermanPublisherHenry Holt and Company1938 (Germany), 1939 (United States), 1940 (United Kingdom)Pages288ISBN9781250317148
The Passenger is a 1938 novel by Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz published by Henry Holt under the imprint Metropolitan Books. Initially unsuccessful, its 2021 re-release gained critical acclaim for its ability to capture the zeitgeist of Jewish persecution in Nazi Germany.

Plot
The book tells the story of Otto Silbermann, a respected German-Jewish business owner living in Berlin who, with his wife, have to flee their home in the immediate aftermath of the Kristallnacht pogrom of November 1938 as Nazi German soldiers pound on their door in the middle of the night. Silbermann and his wife escape from his business through the back door and travel on several trains within Germany in an attempt to flee the country.

Silbermann's travels bring him to a number of individuals, some of whom are outcasts of the Nazi regime, while others embrace its ideology wholeheartedly. Initially refusing to accept the realities of Jewish persecution in the new Nazi Germany, Silbermann eventually comes to accept the realities of his new life as his attempts to flee are unsuccessful.

The Jewish Book Council wrote that "The Passenger offers an intimate portrait of Jewish life in prewar Nazi Germany at the onset of dehumanization, before the yellow star was imposed."

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